

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut.

After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother.

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Brady Hartsfield is about to embark on a new reign of terror against thousands of innocents, hell-bent on taking revenge against anyone who crossed his path-with retired police detective Bill Hodges at the very top of that long list. scheming, biding his time as he trains himself to take full advantage of the deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. But behind the vacant stare, Brady is very much awake and aware, having been pumped full of experimental drugs. A complete recovery seems unlikely for the insane perpetrator of the “Mercedes Massacre,” in which eight people were killed and many more maimed for life. Mercedes and Finders Keepers!įor nearly six years, in Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Brady Hartsfield has been in a persistent vegetative state. The fabulously suspenseful and "smashing" ( The New York Times Book Review) final novel in the Bill Hodges trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mr.
